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Two Products Every Realtor Should Have

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Real Estate Agent with Keller Williams Whittier BRE# 01724300

There are two products that every Realtor should consider as they are great values for what they offer.  keep in mind I was not offered anything to say this but I wanted to offer this information to my collegues here on Active Rain. If you do nothing else in marketing, check hese out.

1. You need to consider the complete website package from ALAMODE .From anywhere from $500-$700 a year you get a complete package that includes fully customizable webpages that is preloaded with rotating professionally written text, 5 websites that you can use for your listings, full lead capture and generation programs, a contact management database, not to mention a floorplan program that you can sketch and make your own floorplans.  All of this is included with superb USA tech support.  Your websites are slo syndicated across the web so you get extra exposure!  Check www.realestateprojohn.com

2. Trulia.  Trulia is a very cost effective lead generation program.  With their Trulia Pro program, you get leads that may give their preapproval status and your listings get "feaured " status.  Their website also features client need to knows like "crime heat maps" and "school information",  as well as current inventory activity for any city.  You will be come your client's hero.  For the record , La Mirada is very low in crime and has increased in value in the last month much to the contrary opinion expressed by my local agent competition  ( I get their flyers on my doorstep frequently)

As a favor tell them I sent you and I will return the same. Thank You

Praful Thakkar
LAER Realty Partners - Burlington, MA
Metro Boston Homes For Sale

John, Trulia seems to be a good platform - but never heard of ALAMODE. For us, KW agents, we get our sites almost ready to go - though template based, it's easy to customize our eAgentC sites.

Mar 02, 2012 03:36 PM
Inna Ivchenko
Barcode Properties - Encino, CA
Realtor® • GRI • HAFA • PSC Calabasas CA

Same here: never heard about Alamode. Seems it is very reasonably priced, but do you personally get actually leads from there? How much? How often?

Trulia has a good reputation. It is pricey though.

Mar 02, 2012 04:04 PM
Michael Elliott
Long & Foster - West Windsor, NJ

I like Trulia.  This is a site which continues to improve and take traffic it seems from the big guy.  But aas for websites, I am in the same boat as Mr Thakkar, and I love my KW site.

Mar 02, 2012 06:14 PM
David Burrows
Classic Realty - Fairfax, VA
No Pressure, Just Seriously Devoted to Real Estate

Thanks John for sharing today. How has your website performed when it comes to generating leads? Trulia is good but I agree with Inna - a bit expensive...

Mar 02, 2012 08:15 PM
Kevin A. Guttman-Author, ReverseMortgageSpecialist
NMLS #384936 - Colorado Springs, CO
877-251-9709

Alamode has mostly serviced appraisers and mortgage originators, sounds like they are now reaching out to RE agents. They are quite helpful with their customer service.

Mar 03, 2012 06:24 AM
John Accornero
Keller Williams Whittier - La Mirada, CA
Accurrate,Accessible,Awesome Realty Experience

You KW agents are so lucky to have a provided website.  I get nothing like that from Prudential.

As far as leads go, I do not get a whole lot of them but then again I guess it is baed on content and maybe I do not have the right content. Online lead generation seems klike an inexact science and early in my real estate carer, I spent lots of money on companies that claimed to have the magic bullet.  Trulia is not as pricey as Zillow.

Mar 03, 2012 01:54 PM